Recently, I’ve been looking at British prototypes for modeling in a small space. Having only known American style trains, I had always thought the British and European prototypes looked rather strange. However, It seems to me that British profile model trains and layouts have several things in their favor. First is smaller equipment, like mainline 0-6-0’s and smaller rolling stock, for both freight (goods), and passenger.

Hello, I have taken some more pictures and made a new video.  I made some repairs to the chain link fencing and will start making some details and weathering to the warehouse.  

This morning I came upon a whole string of the cars below on a storage siding in Cedar Rapids, IA. The cars look a lot like well cars but have bottoms so they are more like gondolas. The are marked as MOW Equipment and appear to be brand new. 

Anyone have an idea what there intended use is?

Hey guys, so it's getting to the point on Nolan's layout that were ready to split the wiring into two broad booster districts, with that subdivided into power districts. My question is whether we can turn both the command station and booster on at once, or whether we have to turn on the command station on first and then the booster in sequence as we do with the club's Digitrax System. I never messed with NCE, so this is a little out of my knowledge base.

    Thanks in advance,

         Jacob